[TIMOB-5085] Tooling: Disabling Spotlight causes iOS builder.py to hang on OSX Lion

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2011-09-09T12:26:53.000+0000
Affected Version/s	Release 1.8.0
Fix Version/s	Sprint 2011-35, Release 1.8.0
Components	Tooling
Labels	n/a
Reporter	Marshall Culpepper
Assignee	Marshall Culpepper
Created	2011-08-23T10:51:37.000+0000
Updated	2017-03-08T00:03:39.000+0000

Description

If you have the Spotlight indexer disabled, the iPhone builder.py will hang when it tries to use mdfind to search for log files. Snippet of the builder.py output:

--- snip copying stuff ---

[DEBUG] executing command: /usr/bin/killall iPhone Simulator
[DEBUG] No matching processes belonging to you were found
[DEBUG] finding old log files
[DEBUG] executing command: mdfind -onlyin /Users/marshall/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.3 -name .log
(HANG HERE)

To reproduce this, simply disable the Spotlight indexer, and try running any iPhone project:

$ sudo mdutil -a -i off
$ titanium run --platform=iphone

We can easily workaround this by checking the status of the Spotlight indexer with mdutil, and falling back to Python's os.walkdir or, simply use find:

$ mdutil -a -s
/:
	Indexing disabled.

Comments

Marshall Culpepper 2011-08-26

To test this fix, just disable spotlight indexing as listed above. Without the patch builder.py will hang for a _very_ long time. With the patch, builder.py will fall back to using recursive file search. Also try adding this property to a Titanium app: <property name="ti.ios.enablemdfind" type="bool">false</property> Build the app, and you should just notice that it no longer uses mdfind in the debugging output.
Marshall Culpepper 2011-09-09

this has been merged
Lee Morris 2017-03-08

Closing ticket due to time passed.

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